2015年5月20日 星期三

2015-05-21 Namibia Science


ABC Online
   
Texas hunter shoots rhino for US$ 350000, calls it conservation   
ABC Online
A Texan hunter paid $350,000 for the right to kill an elderly black rhino in Nambia, with government officials saying the proceeds will go towards conserving the species. A US HUNTER who paid US$350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia successfully ...

Hunter pays $350000 to shoot black rhino: 'I believe in survival of species'   The Guardian
Texas hunter Corey Knowlton shoots endangered rhinoceros in Namibia after ...   Sydney Morning Herald
After the black rhino hunt, a village celebrates meat delivery   CNN

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Stuff.co.nz
   
Oldest known stone tools found in Kenya   
Stuff.co.nz
Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis with stone tools found in the West Turkana area of Kenya. By taking a wrong turn in a dry riverbed in Kenya, scientists discovered a trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who made them – or ...

Stone tool discovery confirms theory of early humans   Toronto Star
World's Oldest Tools - From 3.3 Million Years Ago - Discovered in Africa   USA TODAY
The World's Oldest Stone Tools Were Not Made By Humans   Gizmodo
New York Times   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
The study on gay marriage that was too good to be true   
Sydney Morning Herald
It was the study that some said could rewrite the political rule book. Forget focus groups, road-to-Damascus moments and negative campaign advertising. What if you could change people's minds on an issue such as gay marriage simply by ... talking to them?
Retraction Sought in Study on Views of Gay Marriage   New York Times
Study of views on gay marriage should be retracted, coauthor says   Los Angeles Times
Researcher retracts landmark same-sex marriage study, claims co-author ...   CBC.ca
Washington Post   
NBCNews.com   
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Times of India
   
Giant pandas can't stomach bamboo, say researchers   
Times of India
BEIJING: Despite two million years of munching almost exclusively on bamboo, the giant panda's gut has not adapted to eating the plant -putting the creatures in an "evolutionary dilemma", scientists said. The surprising study , reported by online US journal ...

Panda guts not suited to digesting bamboo   Nature.com
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns

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Wall Street Journal
   
Japan aquariums say they'll stop getting Taiji-hunt dolphins   
Washington Post
TOKYO — Japan's aquariums have promised to stop acquiring dolphins captured in a bloody hunt that was depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove” and caused global outrage. The move by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums ...

Japan Aquariums to Stop Obtaining Dolphins from Taiji   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Japan aquariums to stop buying Taiji dolphins   BBC News
Japanese association to ban aquariums from obtaining dolphins captured via ...   AsiaOne
The Guardian   
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India Today
   
US military launches secret space plane X-37B   
India Today
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. File photo: Reuters.The US Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane was launched on Wednesday for its fourth secret space mission. The reusable, unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lifted off atop an Atlas V rocket at 11:05 am ...

Star Wars: the Air Force's new X-37B space plane shrouded in secrecy   State Column
US Military Space Plane Begins a Fourth (Mostly) Secret Mission   New York Times

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Times of India
   
Snakes' ancestors had hind legs with toes, ankles   
Times of India
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, researchers ...

Ancient snakes were nocturnal hunters with tiny legs   CBS News
Snakes evolved as nocturnal predators with ankles and toes 128 million years ago   National Monitor
Researchers come up with First Comprehensive Reconstruction of Ancestral ...   Uncover California
Reporter Advocate   
Live Science   
Yale News   
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Reuters
   
EU concerned about farming impact on its wildlife   
Reuters
BRUSSELS Around half of wild birds have a secure status as EU programs to protect endangered species have boosted numbers, but some of their habitats are cause for major concern largely because of intensive farming, an EU report found on Wednesday.
'The State of Nature in the EU' report published   Eurosite
Threat to Nature Conservation   Birmingham Post

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Northern Voices Online
   
India questions commitment on $100 billion global climate fund: Update   
Northern Voices Online
India has reiterated its commitment to work with the international community to find practical, pragmatic and equitable solutions to climate change. Making an Intervention at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin today, the Minister of State (Independent ...

India wants to know where the $100 billion climate change fund is   Mobiletor.com
Subnational Global Climate Leadership Memorandum of Understanding   Imperial Valley News
Put Climate Change on the Agenda for India-Pakistan Relations   Foreign Policy (blog)
Irish Times   
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Tech Times
   
Scientists will consider rules on genetically altered humans   
Empire State Tribune
As issues regarding the altering of humans continue to rise, American scientist will be working together to settle on a set of ethical guidelines about the principles of altering the human genome. The disturbing revelation that researchers in China successfully ...

Now GM Humans? International Summit to Snub Genome Editing   Maine News
Scientists to thrash out rules on genetically modified humans   The Independent
How CRISPR Became A Gene-Editing Sensation   Science 2.0
Daily Sabah   
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